Regional differences in the capacity for ammonia removal by brain following portocaval anastomosis.

Abstract:

:Portocaval anastomosis (PCA) in the rat leads, within 4 weeks, to severe liver atrophy, sustained hyperammonemia, and increased brain ammonia. Because brain is not equipped with an effective urea cycle, removal of ammonia involves glutamine synthesis and PCA results in significantly increased brain glutamine. Glutamine synthetase activities, however, are decreased by 15% in cerebral cortex and are unchanged in brainstem of shunted rats. Administration of ammonium acetate to rats following PCA results in severe encephalopathy (loss of righting reflex and, ultimately, coma). Glutamine concentrations in brainstem of comatose rats are increased a further two-fold, whereas those of cerebral cortex are unchanged. Consequently, ammonia levels in cerebral cortex reach disproportionately high levels (of the order of 5 mM). These findings suggest a limitation in the capacity of cerebral cortex to remove additional blood-borne ammonia by glutamine formation following PCA. Such mechanisms may explain the hypersensitivity of rats with PCA and of patients with portal-systemic shunting to small increases of blood ammonia. Disproportionately high levels of brain ammonia in certain regions, such as cerebral cortex, may then result in alterations of inhibitory neurotransmission and, ultimately, loss of cellular (astrocytic) integrity.

journal_name

J Neurochem

authors

Butterworth RF,Girard G,Giguère JF

doi

10.1111/j.1471-4159.1988.tb01064.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-08-01 00:00:00

pages

486-90

issue

2

eissn

0022-3042

issn

1471-4159

journal_volume

51

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